The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-10-13
GOODBYE SCOTLAND.
"a. McG4 4egor Preparing to Leave
for the Continent.
A Review OF the Landlord System in sco;
land and ireland Mining and Man
ufacturing -Enterprising An
drew Carnegia.

is 4"Cam slang" -Strathavon is "Stra-
Edinburgh is "Embro" Kirkend-
bright is "KirkOobry"-Jedburgh is
"Jeddart." &c, &c. OF it is often rem
Go't". In short, great liberty is taken
in the dialect as will be readily observed
by an acquaintance with Burns, Scott,
Macdonald and others.
Well. our time in old Scotland is get
ting short. Five days more and we
shall bid her farewell to cherish, while
memory continue, the noble friends
who have treated me like a brother. 1t
NAV be too much to expect to return
but one, at least, may nurse the hope.
There is much in anticipation even
satisfaction.
What the Scottish people have accom-
plished and do accomplish may well
astonish. By energy, enterprise and
skill they have performed wonders and
smassed wealth. But for this. through
manufactures and commerce, the
landed lords would have had slim pick
, ing. The business prosperity has en-
hanced enormously the value and reve-
nue. of land in various ways and so en-
Fiehed the landed nobility, "who toll
not neither do theysspin."
This very commerce, however, by
Cheapening freights is seriously affect
ing the lords, by bringing the produce
of other lands in competition with
those of Scotland. Hence the ruinous
condition of the farmer here. They
cannot pay enormous rents and com
pete with the cheap lands elsewhere.
Lord r.. Churchill, speaking at an old
agricultural show the other day, re-
ferred to the depression in agriculture,
and gave it as his opinion that the era
of large agricultural holdings was pass
ing away.
Alta political meeting at Invergordon
last evening, DIR. Macdonald, member
of Parliament for Ross-shire, urged
that we should have an AllOtments Bill
for Scotland, and a Parliament for Scot
land and indicated that the proper way
to remedy the House of Lords was to
abolish it. DR.. Macdonald had many
other complaints to make, but he fin
ished his harangue by advising the peo-
pIe to stick to a principle of justice and
truth, and not to be carried away "by
all kinds of doctrine"
Speaking of land in this way reminds
me of evictions, not in Ireland, but in
Scotland.
The clearing of Sutherlandshire, says
the eminent Hugh Miller, was process
of ruin so disastrous that it might be
deemed scarcely possible to render ii
more complete. Between 1871 and 1920
1900 were elected. These Highlanders
were not evicted Tor nOn-payment OF
rent, but simply turned out of their
homes to turn their farms into game
preserves and deer forests. The poorer
members of clans having lost their
proprietary rights, the lairds drove away
their poor cousins, and burnt down
their cabins to compel them to leave the
country. Two million acres were depop.
ulated.
South countrymen we're introduced
and land given to them for sheep farms
over the heads of the native tenantry
They were made magistrates, and thus
enabled to act most tyranically. The
natives were at their mercy, and did
not resist, hoping for indulgence till
they could remove. At May Day, to
their CONSERVATION, commencement
was made to pull down and set hire to
their houses over their heads. r, Every
thing that could not instantly be re-
moved was consumed by fire or de-
stroyed. The cries of the victims, the
confusion, despair, and horror of the
one. and the exulting ferocity OF the
other. beggar description. Nearly 1000
souls at one place, except three families
were utterly rooted and burnt out, and
The parish made a solitary wilderness
some lost reason, SC, &c. Is it not sick
eninV to read it? An English Duke
Switzerland was the instigator.'
It will be seen then, that the land
question is by no means confned to
Ireland. 1t is pressing upon the toilers
in Great Britain as well; and will press
to a solution.
The Tory ministry in PrOroguing Par
lament the other day, put into the
Queens speech the following on Ireland
sThe wants and difficulties OF IRELAND
have occupied yo1r close attention dur
ing a protracted session. trust thai
the remedies which your wisdom na'
provided will gradually erect the com
plete restoration of order In that coun
try. and will give renewed encourage
ment to peaceful industry. La order tC
mass them it has been necessary 10 post
none the consideration of many lmpor
tant measures affecting other parts 0l
the United Kingdom, which u aouDl
not YOU will be able to resume without
hindrance in the coming session.
Ireland has tasted coercion before, but
never. perhaps, when the Irish people
were so united as they are now; 'anc
never when they had SO much sympa
thy elsewhere in the islands of Great
Britain. The Liberal papers and lead
era are outspOken against the tory
nolicy of coercion in Ireland, claiming
the laws are not and have not beer
obstructed, certainly no organized op
position to the enforcement of the laws
Mr. Labauchere, an English NJ. p, says
0Jf a policeman tries to enforce his
way through an orderly and legal meet
mo he ID a disturber OF the public
nasce RE may, and ought to be re-
Sisted If he strikes blow, that blow
om~ht TO be returned, in order to pre-
Vent him striking another. II he seeks
to take life anyone who is IN danger
NAV defend himself by taking the life
c yLln ,.nlinnman The sooner The